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   Jonathan Wight (schwa@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 04:05:21 JST Jonathan Wight

   Meeting culture gone awry.

   I spend the first 10 minutes of every work day declining meetings I don't need to attend. Today is a medium weight day only 3 meetings scheduled for lunchtime.

   Virtual only companies seem to overcompensate with too many recurring meetings I feel.

   Although I do love when I am invited to someone's OOO. But they give me weird looks when I turn up at their Doctor's office though.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 04:05:17 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • dimsumthinking

     @dimsumthinking @schwa
     A pattern I notice a lot is that people lean on meetings when they don’t know how to move forward. Whether it’s lacking agency / permission, lacking skill, lacking information, or just waiting for that other kid to do all the work on the group assignment, there’s this sense of “if we all just sit together more, then things will finally happen!”

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     dimsumthinking (dimsumthinking@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 04:05:18 JST dimsumthinking

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     @schwa Sorry to hear that - it's like work has become one of those long running soap operas

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     Jonathan Wight (schwa@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 04:05:19 JST Jonathan Wight

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     • dimsumthinking

     @dimsumthinking yeah. Meeting culture is just terrible.

     I was asked specifically to attend a meeting yesterday that i had been declining invites to for about ~2 months. They were still discussing the same topics at the last meeting I attended and had not reached any good conclusion in that time.

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     dimsumthinking (dimsumthinking@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 04:05:20 JST dimsumthinking

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     @schwa I found this in groups I worked with in person. We'd stand up from a 10 am meeting and most of us would move to another conference room for our 11 am meeting

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     dimsumthinking (dimsumthinking@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 05:09:38 JST dimsumthinking

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands @schwa often that’s true but I find standing meetings are often an issue. We should meet because there’s a reason to meet - not because it’s Tuesday at 9.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Dec-2023 05:09:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • dimsumthinking

     @dimsumthinking @schwa
     Oh heavens yes, that too.

     The topic of a lot of meetings ought to be, “What in the time since our previous meeting prevented us from being able to make this meeting unnecessary?”